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ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in a southern Kansas community say a 34-year-old man was electrocuted when a boom on a truck touched an overhead power line.
The accident happened Monday morning at the Arkansas City headquarters of KanPak, an international maker of cold and frozen beverages, containers and dispensers.
The Arkansas City Traveler reports the man worked for a local concrete company involved in KanPak’s ongoing expansion project.
Police said a boom that delivers cement from a concrete truck touched a power line. The worker was in contact with the truck when it became energized.
The man’s name has not been released. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to be in Wichita next week to raise money for Gov. Sam Brownback’s re-election campaign.
The Wichita Eagle reports Perry is to attend a reception Sept. 24 at a bank office that formerly housed the Carnegie Library. An invitation on Brownback’s campaign website requests donations of $500 to $4,000 for Brownback and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer.
The two Republican governors have had a close relationship for years.
Both are former state agriculture secretaries, and Brownback endorsed Perry’s 2012 campaign for the GOP nomination for president. Brownback also attended a Houston prayer rally hosted by Perry in August 2011.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles has a high ankle sprain and safety Eric Berry also has an ankle sprain, throwing their status into question for Sunday’s game in Miami.
Charles was hurt on his second carry of the Chiefs’ 24-17 loss to Denver over the weekend, and Berry left the game later in the first half. X-rays came back negative but Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday that he could not provide a timetable for their return.
The loss of Charles and Berry means the Chiefs (0-2) are down seven starters to injuries and suspensions. Those seven players have combined to start 355 games, play in 492 games and appear in nine Pro Bowls over 43-plus seasons in the NFL.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sentencing has been pushed back for a former Kansas state legislator who pleaded guilty in May to defrauding a Colby bank out of more than $400,000.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 40-year-old Trent LeDoux of Holton was scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, but his attorney filed for a continuance because LeDoux is having surgery on Thursday.
The former Republican state representative now will be sentenced on Nov. 17 in federal court. It’s his second continuance after his attorney earlier filed for one pushing back his previously scheduled Aug. 11 sentencing date.
LeDoux applied for three loans and told a bank he was going to use all of the money to buy cattle, but instead used some of it to pay off debts and make contributions to his campaign account.
Glade resident Lewis A. “Doc” Pumphrey Jr. passed away Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, at his home at the age of 79.
He was born in Fall River, KS on May 15, 1935, the son of Lewis A. & Hester Vandella (Jones) Pumphrey. His wife, Patty, preceded him in death on June 24, 2011.
He is survived by three sons: Foy of Eagle Rock, MO, Wyatt of Phillipsburg, KS and Clint of Glade; five grandchildren; a brother, J.B. Pumphrey of Muskogee, OK; and a sister, Janette Wheaton of Kensington, KS.
The family chose cremation. Friends may sign his memory book Tuesday & Wednesday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel in Phillipsburg.
A graveside service and inurnment will be held for Lewis & Patty Pumphrey on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 10:30 a.m. in the Marvin Cemetery, Glade, KS, with Pastor Gary Davison officiating.
Memorial contributions for Lewis Pumphrey may be given to the American Diabetes Association.
Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, is in charge of arrangements.
OSAGE COUNTY- A Kansas woman was killed in an accident just after 7 a.m. on Monday in Osage County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by Bradley John Ruppert, 34, Garnet was eastbound on Kansas 268 just east of Kansas 368 when it crossed the centerline and collided with a 2002 Toyota Camry driven by Dawnette Sue Hoerner, 52, Quenemo, that was westbound.
Hoerner was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.
Ruppert was transported to KU Medical Center.
The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police have released the name of an 85-year-old motorcycle rider who was killed in a chain-reaction crash.
The man was identified Monday as Harold Eulert, of Topeka.
Eulert was riding a motorcycle on a Topeka bridge Friday afternoon when it was hit from behind by a pickup truck. The impact pushed the motorcycle into another truck.
Eulert was critically injured and died at a Topeka hospital.
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WICHITA, KAN. – A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to two years federal prison for counterfeiting, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
Billy J. Antrobus, 25, Wichita, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of manufacturing counterfeit currency. In his plea, he admitted he counterfeited four $50 bills, 27 $20 bills, five $100 bills, and four sheets of uncut $20 bills.
Co-defendants include:
Harvey D. Salisbury, who was sentenced to two years.
Dustelia D. Watts, who is set for sentencing Oct. 6.
Grissom commended the Department of Homeland Security and Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Metzger for their work on the case.
Fort Hays State’s kicker/punter Drew O’ Brien is this week’s MIAA Special Team’s Athlete of the Week. O’Brien was a perfect 2-of-2 on field goal attempts in the Tigers 48-13 win at Northeastern State. He connected from 41 yards and 38 yards in the second quarter, pushing the FHSU lead to 10-6 and then 13-6. He also had three punts go for an average of 44.7 yards, two that went 50 or more yards with 53 as his best effort. He averaged 60.8 yards on kickoffs.
The 6-0 kicker/punter is a native of Hays, Kan. where he competed at TMP-Marian High School.
Central Missouri’s LaVance Taylor is the MIAA Offensive Athlete of the week after his record-setting day in the Mules 50-31 win over #19 Emporia State. Taylor amassed nearly 400 yards of all-purpose yards and scoring six touchdowns. He rushed for 288 yards and four touchdowns on 23 carries for a 12.5 yards per carry average. He had three receptions for eight yards and a touchdown and had a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. He set four single-game school records and tied a career-record in the process. His 288 rushing yards are the most in a single-game in school history, as were his six touchdowns and 36 points scored. His 394 all-purpose yards were also a single-game UCM record. His kickoff return for a touchdown was the third of his career, tying the UCM career record.
Central Oklahoma defensive back Cody Jones is the Defensive Athlete of the Week. Jones came up with two big interceptions during UCO’s 26-17 upset of Missouri Western. The junior cornerback returned the first one 41 yards to the MWSU four-yard-line late in the first half to set up a short UCO field goal that got the Bronchos within 14-10 at halftime and he sealed the win with a 42-yard touchdown return on the final play of the game. Jones added three unassisted tackles, including one for a four-yard loss, and broke up another pass.
SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press
CORRALES, N.M. (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says she’s not backing down on her agency’s efforts to implement a new rule that would assert regulatory authority over many of the nation’s streams and wetlands despite criticisms that it amounts to a federal water grab.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy made the comments Monday during a visit to New Mexico. She stopped in Corrales to commemorate a flood-control project that will be funded with $2 million in federal loans and grants.
McCarthy says the Clean Water Act is more than 40 years old, and it’s time to clarify which streams and waterways fall under its purview. She maintains the new rule would not increase the act’s jurisdiction.
The U.S. House last week passed a bill that would block the EPA from implementing the rule.
MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s effort to identify potentially dangerous space rocks has taken a hit.
On Monday, the space agency’s inspector general released a report blasting NASA’s Near Earth Objects program. The program is set up to hunt and catalog comets, asteroids and relatively large fragments of these objects that pass within 28 million miles of Earth. The purpose is to guard against their potential dangers.
Most of these objects harmlessly disintegrate before reaching Earth’s surface. But there are exceptions, like the nearly 60-foot meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013, causing considerable damage.
In a 44-page report, Inspector General Paul Martin says the NASA program needs to be better managed with a bigger staff. NASA’s science mission chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agrees and promises the problems will be fixed.
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a grateful nation honors the acts of valor by two Vietnam War soldiers who risked their lives to protect fellow troops.
Obama is bestowing the Medal of Honor on Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins and Army Spc. Donald P. Sloat, nearly half a century after they fought in Vietnam.
Adkins ran through enemy fire while rescuing injured comrades. He was injured but survived.
Sloat did not. He pulled an enemy grenade close to his body to protect fellow troops from the blast.
Congress granted an exemption to allow the soldiers to receive the medal so many years later. Obama says even the most extraordinary acts on the battlefield can get lost in the fog of war or the passage of time.
